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    <description>Writings. Musings. Commentery. And a Gay Southerner.</description>
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    dc:description="I&apos;ve been thinking about a new site or array of new sites.  I want to get back into the daily/weekly blog postings and ramblings in the hopes that doing so will encourage further poetry writing as well.

I&apos;m envisioning two separate sites with a move of the poetry to a dedicated poetry site and the ramblings on their own as well.  Opinions anyone??  Does anyone still stick around here at all??"
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    dc:title="No Compromise"
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    dc:description="I recently listened to a series of insightful lectures on the American Civil War given by Dr. Gary Gallagher, a professor of History at the University of Virginia. Early on, Dr. Gallagher analyzed the failure of America&#8217;s political leadership to find a compromise on slavery in the days and years leading up to secession and the catastrophic and bloody war. There was the careful attempt to admit to the Union, in tandem, one slave state and one free state to insure the balance of power in the&#8230;"
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    dc:description="In the far off distance of the past where honor was the cause and the effect was heart tearing, I tried to understand my difference in this world but I didn&apos;t find the understanding which I graved so. I was like a hungry lion looking for his prey, stalking it, pouncing yet it got away. I hungered for knowledge, yet I died of starvation from lack of wisdom. People told me to grab the world with both hands or it will pass me by. I was paralized to watch it decay. The endless corruption, the violent&#8230;"
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    dc:description="The physical, the elemental pain was sometimes beyond my understanding. My flesh was torn; my body fighting in vain to detach itself from my mind; fleeing My mind is shattered, no longer free A castle gutted by flame, hate and greed. A candle smothered. Why did you not see me hurt? I am drowning. Do you see me bleed? Dear God, art thou in heaven? Did I sin? Am I forsaken? Why did you not know my soul was being devoured by kin? I am the Godless, lost and dying too slow. I thought I won the battle&#8230;"
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    dc:title="Pledge of Allegience"
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      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Life &amp; Times, Personal</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2009-10-31T03:07:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description></description>
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      <dc:creator>fiercepoet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-10-14T01:57:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>What&#8230;</title>
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      <description>What do you do when the one you love the most is the one who hurts you the most?</description>
      <dc:subject>Life &amp; Times, Daily Trials, Writing, Quotes</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-10-14T01:17:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>I ran across this old printout from 1996.&amp;nbsp; It&#8217;s a poem I printed from years ago and I wanted to share.</description>
      <dc:subject>Writing, Other Writers</dc:subject>
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      <dc:date>2008-10-14T01:13:01-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description>On this, the 10th anniversary of the brutal attack and killing of Matthew Shepard, I&#8217;m continuing to remember him and all the others we&#8217;ve lost.&amp;nbsp; I usually always do something here at Fiercepoet.com in remembrance; whether it be the simple placement of the header image I use, posting of a video, a song or some other form of tribute.&amp;nbsp; I&#8217;m slowly building a tribute that can be simply added to and reposted each year.&amp;nbsp; This is the work in progress.&amp;nbsp; I say work in progress because as long as there is hatred towards homosexuals and transgenders, there will always be work to be done.


Charlie Howard &#45; July 1984.... Allen R. Schindler, Jr. &#45; October 1992.... Brandon Teena &#45; December 1993.... Scott Amedure &#45; March 1995.... Billy Clayton &#45; May 1995.... Tyra Hunter &#45; August 1995.... Matthew Shepard &#45; October 1998.... Billy Jack Gaither &#45; February 1999.... PFC Barry Winchell &#45; July 1999.... JR Warren &#45; July 2000.... Danny Overstreet &#45; September 2000.... Fred Martinez &#45; June 2001.... Aaron Webster &#45; November 2001.... Sakia Gunn &#45; May 2003.... Scotty Joe Weaver &#45; July 2004.... Roderick George &#45; July 2004.... Jody Dobrowski &#45; October 2005....&amp;nbsp; The list continues&#8230;


Unfortunately, this list may never end. We can however help prevent further crimes by remembering past victims. No one will ever forget seeing that bloody, split&#45;rail fence on the Wyoming prairie.&amp;nbsp; No one ever should.</description>
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      <dc:date>2008-10-12T04:26:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Writing, Other Writers, Current Events</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>fiercepoet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-09-11T04:18:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Writing, Other Writers</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>fiercepoet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-09-10T04:13:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <description></description>
      <dc:subject>Writing, Other Writers</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>fiercepoet</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2008-09-09T04:13:00-05:00</dc:date>
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